Job 3:16
Or, as a hidden untimely birth, I had perished; As infants which never saw the light.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
In Context
15Or with princes that had gold, And filled their houses with silver;
17There the wicked cease from troubling; There the weary are at rest.
Cross References
Job 10:19I should be as though I had not been; I should have been borne from the womb to the grave.
Psalms 58:9Before your pots feel the heat of the thorns, Whether fresh, or burning, may they be blown away!
Ecclesiastes 6:3Though a man have a hundred children, and live many years, and though the days of his years be many, if his soul be not satisfied with good, and he have no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better than he.
Matthew Henry on Job 3:12-20
Job's Complaint of Life. ( b. c. 1520.) 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; 15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as… Read the whole commentary →